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Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

Lyon, Mary, 1797-1849

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Mary Lyon, educator and founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College), was born on February 28, 1797, in Buckland, Massachusetts. Her parents were Aaron Lyon, a farmer, and Jemima Shepard Lyon. After her father's death in 1802 and her mother's remarriage 1810, Lyon remained on the family farm as a housekeeper for her brother. She started teaching in 1814 and continued her own education by attending Sanderson Academy in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Amherst (Massachusetts) Acade...

Ipswich Female Seminary (Ipswich, Mass.)

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Canandaigua Seminary.

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Banister, Zilpah P. Grant (Zilpah Polly Grant), 1794-1874

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Zilpah P. Grant Banister was born on May 30, 1794 in Norfolk, Connecticut. In 1820 she enrolled in the Byfield Female Seminary in Masachusetts under Reverend Joseph Emerson. She then taught at various schools around Norfolk until she began organizing the Adams Female Academy in Londonderry, New Hampshire, which opened in 1824. Here she worked as principal with Mary Lyon as her assistant. In 1828 she received an invitation to organize a school in Ipswich, Massachusetts. She remained at Ipswich Fe...

Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878

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Educator Catharine Esther Beecher, a daughter of Lyman Beecher, was an advocate of education for women and of women teachers. In 1823 she founded the Hartford Female Seminary to educate young women. In 1846, she began a project to send female teachers from the Eastern states to western states and territories, and established training schools for women teachers in several western cities. From the description of Letter, 1847. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 548941345 ...

Byfield Female Seminary.

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Farrar, Cynthia, 1795-1862

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Adams Female Academy (Derry, N.H.)

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Adams Female Academy. From the description of Catalog, 1827. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 210239360 ...

Society for the Education of Females (Ipswich, Mass.)

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Emerson, Joseph, 1777-1833

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Joseph Emerson was born on October 13, 1777. He attended Harvard University, graduated in 1798 and taught for a short time before becoming a minister. In 1818 he founded the Byfield Female Seminary, in Byfield, Massachusetts. Here, Zilpah Grant Banister taught hundreds of students, before she went on to found her own school. Joseph Emerson died on May 13, 1833 in Wethersfield. From the guide to the Emerson papers MS 0534., 1803-1844., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Colle...